We are governed by gambling addicts. Change my mind.
They aren’t imaginary, they just don’t mean anything. Not anything important anyway. It’s a measure of certain rich peoples’ rising or falling fortunes. They pick which group of rich people to represent in the number and that constantly changes.
This is imaginary numbers slander. Unlike capitalism, those are actually useful for physics and stuff.
Physics and electrical engineering! Complex numbers are an elegant way to model reactive power, the key insight into developing power factor correction circuits which are a critical piece of electrical infrastructure without which our electrical grid would fail!
I mean sure living on a livable planet is cool and all, but have you considered number going up?
Oh shit i hadnt! Its really going too, isnt it?
